Lettuce All The Year Round - Lactuca sativa

The All The Year Round Lettuce is a very versatile Lettuce, which can be harvested for a large part of the year. It is a hardy and reliable variety, even in dry weather. It forms medium-sized heads with a crisp heart. Sowing from March to September for a harvest from spring to late autumn.

If Lettuce is one of the most popular vegetables (consumed at a rate of 4.2 kilograms per person per year), it is appreciated for its freshness, crispness as well as its taste and nutritional qualities. It can be consumed raw in salads but also cooked, for example to accompany peas.

As the ultimate leaf vegetable, Lettuce is an annual plant that belongs to the large family of Asteraceae. Its Latin name, Lactuca sativa, refers both to the white sap (lactuca) that flows when it is cut and to the fact that it is cultivated (sativa).

It is an essential vegetable in any respectable vegetable garden and there are so many varieties that it can be grown almost all year round.

The cultivation of Lettuce is easy as long as you respect the cultivation calendar of each variety. It grows quickly and thrives in any soil, provided it is rich and remains moist.

Harvest: Simply cut the Lettuces when they are well developed.

Storage: Lettuce can be stored for a few days in the refrigerator, but to enjoy its freshness to the fullest, we recommend consuming it immediately after harvesting. Freezing cooked Lettuce is also possible.

Gardener's tip: The nightmare of gardeners, slugs and snails love lettuce leaves. When the hunt is on, we must admit that we are ready to do anything to repel or eliminate them: the ash string (which will quickly be leached by the rain), the homemade trap filled with beer (which hedgehogs get drunk on until they are in an alcoholic coma), the copper strips that are supposed to electrocute them (which tickle them a little).

Instead of wasting your time and, incidentally, your salads, we recommend using an anti-slug product composed of ferric phosphate known as Ferramol. Unlike metaldehyde-based slug killers, which are dangerous for fauna and polluting, Ferramol is natural, non-toxic and very effective as long as you remember to "treat" your plot a few days before sowing.